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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,953 posts)
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:16 PM 1 hr ago

Trump promised to bring 500,000 Chinese students and allow China to own U.S. farmland-- MAGA is enraged

https://newrepublic.com/post/210539/maga-reeling-trump-welcomes-chinese-students-us-farms-xi

MAGA is Reeling as Trump Welcomes Chinese Students to the U.S.
. “I respect President Trump, but if he brings 500,000 Chinese students to Florida colleges, I will raise tuition on them to $1,000,000/year,” wrote Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback.



President Trump promised to bring 500,000 Chinese students to American universities and allow China to own U.S. farmland—leaving the MAGAverse enraged. 

“But if you don’t have those students—good students, by the way—if you don’t … if they’re good and they want to stay in America, we won’t give them a green card and things like that,” Trump rambled on to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing. Not everybody agrees with me, and it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position. And I’m as conservative—I’m a conservative guy. I’m really a common sense guy, I think, more than a conservative.” 


“Actually, no, those 500,000 students are by law required to act as spies for China. This is the law in China. If removing them sinks some schools, then they deserve to sink,” MAGA influencer Robby Starbuck opined. “The only Chinese students we should invite are the top 0.001% who we should invite to defect to America. And farmland? Lol. We shouldn’t even let a Chinese company visit American farmland let alone own it. No exceptions. I give the Chinese credit, they would NEVER let Americans own their farmland. America First.”


“Trump says it’s insulting to tell China their students can’t go to our universities, imagine being an American student and receiving a rejection letter while 500,000 Chinese students get in!” former MAGA Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote. “And NO it is not ok for China to buy our farmland!!! And no that’s not common sense!!!”
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Trump promised to bring 500,000 Chinese students and allow China to own U.S. farmland-- MAGA is enraged (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 1 hr ago OP
It won't be long before he changes his tune. 50 Shades Of Blue 1 hr ago #1
I'm sure most of maga doesn't know about it or will make up excuses as to how this will own mucifer 1 hr ago #2
Or blame it on Biden BlueWaveNeverEnd 1 hr ago #3
This isn't real?? Really ? Hard to know these days. Spies? Seriously? Srkdqltr 1 hr ago #4
China likes to buy farmland near NJCher 1 hr ago #5
Did they think Trump was good at being president Johonny 1 hr ago #6
So he is erasing all of the gains ICE has made with one handshake? Wounded Bear 1 hr ago #7
MAGAt Governors/Senators/Reps Don't Like This Stuff NJCher 1 hr ago #8
They'll suck it up because Trump says it's great durablend 1 hr ago #10
Want to bet? NJCher 36 min ago #11
So... they're just NOW getting outraged over Trump's pay-to-play Presidency? Aristus 1 hr ago #9
Kick dalton99a 27 min ago #12

mucifer

(25,727 posts)
2. I'm sure most of maga doesn't know about it or will make up excuses as to how this will own
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:23 PM
1 hr ago

the libs.

They hate us more than they love themselves.

NJCher

(43,502 posts)
5. China likes to buy farmland near
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:34 PM
1 hr ago

sensitive military installations, like Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

NJCher

(43,502 posts)
8. MAGAt Governors/Senators/Reps Don't Like This Stuff
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:46 PM
1 hr ago

Ricketts/Nebraska sponsored a bill last year that would help prevent China or any other country to buy farmland. It was called the AFIDA Improvements Act and it would "equip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat foreign adversaries’ ownership of American agricultural land." Link.

Look who the sponsors are:

Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Katie Britt (R-AL) are original co-sponsors of this legislation in the Senate. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) is leading companion legislation in the House.



To say this will not go over well is putting it mildly.

BTW, I don't think this act has passed yet. It is still in committee, if I'm reading it right.



NJCher

(43,502 posts)
11. Want to bet?
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:28 PM
36 min ago

$25 and the loser pays it to DU as a contribution.

In 2 weeks the responses should have been aired. Bet would be determined on May 30.

Aristus

(72,514 posts)
9. So... they're just NOW getting outraged over Trump's pay-to-play Presidency?
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:00 PM
1 hr ago

Fuck ‘em.

They voted for others to suffer. They deserve some of their own.

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